The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like… — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I am sometimes referred to as Excuse Me in an annoyed tone of voice, because apparently I am in the way. I… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Finnick:" Good to see you, Peeta." Peeta:" You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
You see sort of the difference in the way that Marco Rubio was talking in that kind of way. That kind of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings… — George Perle Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling.… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's… — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look -… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
We never had a billionaire brand in music; the closest thing we had was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson sold 750 million records.… — Birdman Copy Share Image
Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the… — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image